Good Morning!
On this day in 421 the city of Venice was founded.
In 1776 the Continental Congress authorized a medal for General George Washington.
In 1947 John D. Rockefeller III presented a check for $8.5 million to the United Nations for the purchase of land for the site of the U.N. center.
And in 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, AL.
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Quote of the Day
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
Bob Hope
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Since today is this lady’s birthday, she’s the music selection for today. Sorry Elton.
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Who has a QoD for us today?
Wandering Views 
Congress sent George a medal instead of money.
George had a problem with congress the entire time.
Speaking of money, I wish John R. had kept his.
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Not much to say yet today. It is a Monday. We have a team meeting at work. Mr. P and I went down to the Bay yesterday and sat on the beach for a couple of hours. I got slightly sunburned on my left arm and I found out I cannot read my Kindle out in the sun. Such problems to have.
Have a great day everyone.
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First day of school after a week off. The Kid doesn’t want to get out of bed.
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kBells: I feel for you. We didn’t just have a week off, but Mondays are always hard. My youngest always seem to feel “sick” on Monday mornings.
Had a nice weekend. Went shopping with oldest daughter on Saturday for another dress for Cotillion. She has four dances left and we found all four dresses at the first shop we went to. I hate shopping and said a quick prayer to God that we would find the dresses quickly and easily before we headed out. Imagine my surprise and delight when we found four perfect dresses in less than an hour! God is so good. Also, the lady who owns the dress shop helped me find a few things for my trip to San Diego in April. I’m terrible at picking out clothes and accessorizing and this lady made it fun. She was a wonderful salesman.
Saturday night we went out to dinner with my MIL. We were celebrating Becca’s birthday (MIL had been out of town on her actual birthday). Everyone enjoyed their dinner at the Pizza Shack and MIL seemed especially glad for the company.
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Snow day, so no Monday at school. This is a short week anyway, since we get Friday off.
Here’s a QoD: Do you think we should get out of the UN and send them to Geneva? I do. The UN is a toothless tiger when it comes to keeping the peace. And most of the third world despots are against us. Since each country has one vote, guess who loses most of the time?
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Another reason to get out of the UN: They are injecting their laws into our laws, thus taking our sovereignty.
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ANMS, what’s cotillion that it takes that many dresses? Sounds expensive!
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We have found it helpful, when a child is resistant to Mondays, to allow the child to do school work over the weekend as well, just to keep the mind fresh you know. And, of course, they maintain the very same bedtime and rising time as a school day, but we all do that.
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Our daughter was getting distressed because she was to have several dresses/skirts to go to the convention. She was invited to go along as the Academy only has one girl going and she needed a companion. Anyway, when I realized her distress, I reminded her that her grandma (not bio or adopted, just a neighbor who loves them all and acts as a grandma, taking them to their events when dad can’t) enjoys sewing and has offered to help in the past. They got together and got them all done in plenty of time.
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I typed a reply, but I guess it got lost in cyberspace. I’ll try again.
Mumsee: Sounds like their “grandma” is a real blessing.
Cheryl: Cotillion is a program that teaches etiquette and dancing at monthly meetings during the school year. It begins in seventh grade. All of my daughter’s friends were participating in it, so she wanted to do it, too. The girls wear fancy dresses and the boys wear jackets and ties. Of course, they couldn’t possibly wear the same dress twice! She’s enjoyed it so far. They also have winter and spring formals where they get to show off all the moves they’ve learned in their lessons! It is fun to see my daughter all dressed up (she usually wears jeans and a t-shirt) and we’ve gotten lots of good pictures of her this year. Maybe it’s just a southern thing.
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Well, you all have confirmed for me that it is, indeed, Monday.
I was afraid that was the case when I woke up this morning. 😉
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Mumsee, did the girls have a good night?
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Ann, I’ve heard of cotillions, but not that particular program. It sounds nice except the new dress for each event–especially with the current lack of modest formal dresses (unless that style issue has finally bit the dust, as it was well overdue to do) and the cost involved.
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Cheryl, you’ve gotta give the born-to-shop sex some incentive to keep with the program. 🙂
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Donna, which sex is that? I’m a Scottish lass, and I’m still wearing some winter clothes I bought in Phoenix (in 1989) for my move to Chicago. . . .
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Ha. Good for you. But I’d say you’re the exception rather than the rule. 🙂 Even among Scottish gals (who, however, will always find the best deals on the latest frocks).
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You mean I’m not the only one who still has clothes from the 80s? I wear a cardigan my MIL gave me back then at school when my classroom is cold (which is almost every day, since they can’t seem to get the heat in my room to work).
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I’m not shocked you two have clothes from the 80’s.
I am shocked though that someone can still fit in their clothes from the 80’s.
😯
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AJ, 🙂 🙂
Truth be known, I do still have clothes from the ’90s. 🙂 Oh, and a jacket I bought way, way, way long ago. It’s gotta be an antique now. 😉 Every time I go to put it in a Salvation Army bag, I pull it back. Weird. And, no, I don’t think it fits anymore. 😦 But it might again someday! Hope springs eternal …
I’ve actually been on a self-imposed shopping fast for some time now. No new frocks or doodads for me or the dogs or the house. Sigh. We’re surviving quite well, however.
But I still stand behind my theory: Men are hunters. Women are gatherers.
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In other words, men find it and kill it and design it … it then goes (nowadays) to the mall … so that women can wear it or drape it across a table or on a sofa or over the windows; if nothing else, they can at least fold it up in a closet somewhere.
Capitalism. Such a great system.
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Chas, nobody mentioned any nightmares this morning.
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AJ, I can’t fit into pants or skirts from the eighties (and I just gave away nearly all my belts), but tops, yes. So I still have several sweaters and sweatshirts from my college days (early nineties) and earlier. The oldest is from about 1980, but it’s fragile now and doesn’t get worn much anymore. (The underarms have been mended a few times.)
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That’s good, Mumsee. As for me, twice in the last week or ten days I’ve had dreams that would have been nightmares to most women (and the second creeped me out after a while), but it takes a lot of bugs and spiders to creep out a would-be naturalist.
My sister’s family has land with a lot of snakes on it (copperheads, timber rattlers, moccasins, etc.). and my husband went to bed at their house commenting that he hoped he didn’t dream about snakes. (We hadn’t seen any, but they’d mentioned them.) He didn’t, but I did. But snakes bother him more than they bother me, so that dream was just a “scientific” one of seeing a lot of snakes, but no fear involved.
Two nights ago, though, I dreamed that I was in Africa and bugs were landing on me faster than I could swat them away. At some point I touched my ear and realized that since I hadn’t been swatting them away from it, it was covered solid with insects, some ladybug-like thing and some tiny leeches. I pulled them all off, but then I looked in the mirror and saw that I had three or four large leeches attached to my face, and at that point I decided it was time to leave. But up till that point, the insects were just an annoyance and not “creepy.”
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I have a number of (still) favorite sweaters from the late ’80s I’d guess. And I have a favorite sweatshirt I bought in Iowa in the 1980s … It’s black, a hooded pullover, with bright yellow letters “IOWA” It’s snug on me now (I think it was a medium), but I still like to wear it around the house.
Dreams. I’ve always had really vivid dreams for some reason, and I had some especially vivid ones last night and early this morning (after I’d gotten up at 5 to let the animals out). Very involved story lines (although they jump around a lot) with a cast of characters, known and unknown, dead and alive.
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Good afternoon. Today we have a bit of snow here, but our road is clear, so we really don’t mind.
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The nightmares around here are more along the lines of stuff you don’t want to know. Kidnapping by bio parents, knives in moms, rape, stuff they watched in movies while under age eight, like horror movies and porn.
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Its 42.5 degrees in Hendersonville.
😦 I had to cut grass anyhow.
It isn’t right to have to cut grass in a parka.
Apple growers love it. It retards blooms and reduces probability of killing freeze.
I didn’t know until recently, but apple trees require a period, of I don’t know how many, but over 100 days, of dormancy.
Peach trees in SC also. This cold weather is good for them.
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Qod…yes…the UN needs to get lost.
It was 6 degrees when I awoke this morning…it is up to 25 in hopes of reaching a high of 28. We received 7 more inches of snow this weekend…hurrah for moisture…but not so much for the cold….
And I continue to wear clothes I purchased in the 90’s…my favorite Eddie Bauer dress is still in my closet….they just don’t make ’em like they use to…I’m not loving the new styles…my normal wear is blue jeans and sweater…boots or clogs…or flats…I’m really not that hard to please 🙂
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I, too, have vivid dreams. I have since I was a little kid. I also sleepwalk, snore (loudly), and sometimes, eat. Some mornings I wake up with chocolate all around my mouth and have no recollection of even getting out of bed!
It’s chilly here today (for Houston), but sunny and beautiful.
Mumsee: Sorry you’re kids are suffering at night. I’ll be praying for peaceful slumber for them. Nightmares can be so disturbing, even after one is awake.
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I still have quite a few clothes from the nineties myself. I held on to the dress I wore to my high school graduation until a couple of years ago. It was a beautiful white gown. I gave it, along with many other formal dresses, to Connie (our housekeeper) who sent it to El Salvador. A woman in her extended family was to be married and the women sewed sequins and other beading onto the dress and used it as a wedding dress. It looked truly beautiful. Seeing that motivated me to clean out the rest of my closet. It was nice to see something that held special meaning for me be used for another special occasion.
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annms, that’s really quite amazing (that you get up and eat chocolate and don’t remember it). 🙂
Pretty awesome, actually.
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Cheryl: Regarding Cotillion: We have been able to find appropriate dresses for around $50.00, which I don’t consider too terrible. Some have been less (by shopping at places like Ross) and some have been a little more. My daughter and I have made some special memories during these shopping excursions. And getting a monthly photograph of her during this time of rapid development is priceless. I believe it has helped her self-confidence and I know she’s enjoyed socializing with her friends. We carpool to the “lessons” with six other girls, all of whom I’m very fond.
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donnaj: Not so awesome for the waistline! Evidently, I get up and eat cookies (preferably Pepperide Farms Double Chocolate Milanos).
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continued…. If there are none in the house, I don’t eat other things! Or, at least, there’s no evidence of my having eaten anything else.
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Btw, I don’t take any kind of sleep medication. I’ve done these things since childhood.
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Annms,
When we went to Reading last Friday we also went to the outlets. One of them was the Pepperidge Farms store. If you slept walked at my house right now you’d be in heaven. We have 5 different kinds of Milanos, as well as alot of other choices. We got about 50 dollars worth for 20. Sweet, in more ways than one.
🙂
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Hopefully, the people whose faith is shaken by reading my comments have jerked their eyes away from the screen. Look! I am burning a Koran right now in front of your eyes!
I think I am engaging in a ménage à trois. We have friends/neighbors (1/4 mile qualifies as “neighbor” in the island woods where we live who are devout Christians (as far as I can tell) who tolerate homosexuals (such as my daughter and her wife, if they wanted to attend) and at least one peaceful Muslim in their church congregation?
They have Bibles and crosses and religious paintings all over their church. Yet for all I know, they are “false” Christians, like the ones who owned slaves and murdered Indians and so on.
On the other hand, I am engaged with the people of Wandering Views, who belong to various churches, which as far as i can tell, do not tolerate homosexual marriages or easy-going Muslims. And who assure me that they are the REAL Christians.
Now when I was young I knew (though did not participate in) people who engaged in the old fashioned kind of ménage à trois.
Those usually involved a man and a woman and a man.Or a man and a woman and a woman. Or a man and a man and a man. Or a woman and a woman and a woman. Unless dogs and cats and horses and donkeys were involved.
Nevertheless, no matter what kinds of pets or farm animals you engaged, the mechanics were difficult and often dangerous. So my suggestion is, whether you are praying or petting a companion animal, wear a seat belt.
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AMNS, do they still do the Grand March?
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AJ- I don’t fit the few things I have left very well, except that cardigan. I also kept a t-shirt I bought in 1977 in Israel. It hasn’t fit for a couple of decades and has a few holes, but has sentimental value, along with a couple of other ratty t-shirts. I did finally get rid of the polyester powder blue suit I bought in the 80s. Why I ever liked that color I don’t know.
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Yesterday morning as I was finishing up my pre-church cup of tea, i discovered a stink bug in the bottom of the cup. This was not a nightmare – it was real life.
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Linda, that’s as bad as finding half a worm in your apple. 😆
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Linda and Chas,
😯
EWWWWWWW!!!!!!
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I’ve eaten a ladybug before by accident.
I’ve had a spider in my glass, which I discovered AFTER I drank out of it. 😦
That kind of stuff is really EWWWWW (as AJ so aptly pointed out.)
For some reason, I’ve been HUNGRY all the time the last few days. This is not good. 😦
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So, how many of you are vegetarians? How many of you are hunters? How many of you have killed, or helped kill, your own dinner? Tammy, have you eaten dinner yet, or should I avoid walking by your house?
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Random,
No, yes but not any more, yes, and yes. And I don’t know if Tammy’s eaten yet.
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Thank you AJ. (Memo to self: AJ AJ AJ AJ AJ) Not TJ.
I have killed but not eaten bunnies. Once my wife and I were at a Radio Shack in town (five miles from where we live in the woods). As we were in the store, a woman rushed in to tell us there was a chipmunk riding in our truck (under the hood, but its head was poking out). Someone else on the street offered to open the hood so the chipmunk could get out and roam the streets and fields. (It’s a very small, very rural town).
“No!” hollered the first woman. “This is not its habitat! Let it ride home with you so it can be back where it lives!”
We drove home (presumably with the chipmunk still riding under the hood). However, our berries were just coming ripe and we put rat traps out to kill the chipmunks who were eating our berries. The chipmunk would have been safer in town.
That was a couple of years ago. However, today, my wife just noticed a bump on one of our hen’s heads. She said, “I am going to take it to the vet so he can examine it.” My wife is sure our hens will outlives us. Perhaps I can take the hen with me Thursday when I go into the city to get my MRI. “Please do an MRI on our hen at the same time you do me,” I will ask.
“Is your hen claustrophobic?” they will ask me.
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I have never killed anything larger than a small snake. And i didn’t eat it. I did watch my uncle kill a couple of chickens that my mom and aunt cooked for us and once we raised a cow. One day my father carried him away and returned with steak, hamburger and roast.
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I accidentally killed our cat once. I backed over it in the car, which made me very sad.
I have never killed anything that I then ate. In fact, I think if I had to do that, I would likely become a vegetarian. It bothers me even to see fish caught and killed. 😦
I know … I’m a weenie. I don’t have a problem with eating meat, and I don’t have an issue with those who hunt or raise animals for food on a farm. I simply am an overly sensitive soul when it comes to these things. 😦
I suppose that — should my life depend on it, or those of my children — then I would manage to kill something for food. But, I wouldn’t like it. 😦
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I was a vegetarian until I was able to raise my own. I have killed a deer and don’t believe I need ever do it again unless desperation hits, then I will know I can. I have killed chickens, mostly when it appears they are not being killed quickly and painlessly. I do not like killing things. Though I will kill mice rather than have them overrun the house and gophers rather than have them overrun the gardens. But I don’t eat them.
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